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DSL Upgrade

My place of employment recently got a "free" temporary upgrade to our DSL package from SBC. I have no love for SBC whatsoever as their DSL reliability has been wretched from day one and the equipment they provided us with was utter junk. I'm also well aware that this "free" upgrade is nothing more than a business ploy to get us to upgrade our account once we've gotten used to the extra bandwidth and the "free" time runs out.

Nevertheless, it's pretty damn cool to get these types of transfer speeds. Check this out (89K image). This was done from my machine on our network with approximately 6 machines using the Internet connection at any given time.

Our paid for DSL service is 768-1500kbps downstream and 256kbps upstream. We're currently receiving 1500-6000kbps downstream and 384kbps upstream. Seeing as how I can look out of the window in front of my desk and see the CO, I would imagine we'll hang around the upper limits of the downstream.

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